1950

Sasaki Kojiro

5/3

Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as Sasak...

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Sasaki Kojiro

1938

So Goes My Love

7/1

Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow every day. Both live on what Minako earns...

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So Goes My Love

1941

Notes of an Itinerant Performer

6.8/4

Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother died, and now...

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Notes of an Itinerant Performer

1935

Burden of Life

6.4/7

Family drama. A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unw...

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Burden of Life

1935

The Groom Talks in His Sleep

6/1

This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of earl...

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The Groom Talks in His Sleep

1933

The Dancing Girl of Izu

6.5/2

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets...

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The Dancing Girl of Izu

1932

Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?

6.4/19

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

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Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?

1938

Family Diary

5.7/3

Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’ famili...

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Family Diary

1936

Family Meeting

0/0

A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.

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Family Meeting

1937

Lady Doctor Kinuyo

4.6/4

Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families always fight like cat and dog. This relationship is...

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Lady Doctor Kinuyo

1937

Vermilion and Green

5.3/3

A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.

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Vermilion and Green

1929

Parent

0/0

A Japanese short film, the earliest extant film of the great director Hiroshi Shimizu.

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Parent

1933

Island Girl

0/0

Japanese silent film.

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Island Girl

1923

Anguish of a Human Being

0/0

Directed by Kensaku Suzuki.

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Anguish of a Human Being

1936

Men vs. Women

0/0

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

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Men vs. Women

1934

Our Neighbor, Miss Yae

7.2/12

Keitaro is a law student and Yaeko is a high school girl. They are neighbors, and their friendship is starting to develop into something more romantic...

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Our Neighbor, Miss Yae

1939

Daini no shuppatsu

0/0

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Daini no shuppatsu

1921

Winter Camellia

0/0

Directed in 1921

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Winter Camellia

1939

Warm Current

4/3

Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's daughter...

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Warm Current

1939

A Brother and His Younger Sister

5.8/4

A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting t...

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A Brother and His Younger Sister

1937

The Trio's Engagements

7/1

Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.

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The Trio's Engagements

1924

Eikichi the Chauffeur

0/0

Directed by Minoru Murata.

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Eikichi the Chauffeur

1918

The Living Corpse

0/0

A film adaptation of the play by Leo Tolstoy.

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The Living Corpse

1922

On the Verge of Spiritual Light

0/0

Directed by Kiyomatsu Hosoyama.

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On the Verge of Spiritual Light

1927

Honoo no sora

0/0

Early feature film by Hiroshi Shimizu.

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Honoo no sora

1927

Umi mo yusha

0/0

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Umi mo yusha

1932

Arashi no naka no shojo

0/0

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Arashi no naka no shojo

1928

Kare to Tokyo

0/0

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Kare to Tokyo

1942

Sumida River

0/0

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big st...

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Sumida River

1942

A Certain Woman

0/0

Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew, who...

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A Certain Woman

1939

Surging Waves

0/0

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Surging Waves

1924

Moken no himitsu

0/0

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

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Moken no himitsu

1939

Haha o tataeru uta

0/0

A widow works as an insurance seller to raise her three children

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Haha o tataeru uta

1935

Okoto and Sasuke

6.7/3

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki Jun...

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